Sad. Not Doing Good on Orientation

[Caffeine_IV]

Just wanted to vent/post.

I recently started in a new area which is critical care at a large hospital. My background is general medical (the floor) and LTC. I feel that I've been working really hard but apparently my preceptors do not see it. I do recognize I have weak areas but I am constantly working to improve. The learning curve is huge in ICU and I realize that I actually forgot a lot of things I used to know very well because I just didn't need to know it for the floor.

So I'm on a 2 week get better or have a "talk" which is likely being fired due to not being a fit for ICU.

[RhinoRocketRN]

i worked on PCU for a year and I just landed ICU... Ive been on orientation for 1 month, and 2-3 weeks in my critical thinking brain finally came back to me. If you want it, give it some time, don't stress over it.. if you dont think you can make it at this time, do more medsurg, and come back later :)

[Caffeine_IV]

Update:

I got fired for not progressing as they like and not "integrating into the team." Transfer was not allowed as I hadn't been there long enough.

I'm sad that I didn't just resign because it really seems they had their mind made up before my last 2 week extension.

We have enough savings that I can "regroup" for a little bit but I'm still sending out my resume.

[netglow, ASN, RN]

:hug:

[tokmom, BSN, RN]

Gosh darn it. I'm sorry. :hug:

[Caffeine_IV]

^^Thanks.